RandySF
RandySF's JournalDamnit, Mr. President. Stop holding back
I saw the fury in his face, but he was reserved in words as always. I wish he would just let it rip. It's not like he has to worry about re-election.
Suspect wore white supremacist patches in Facebook photo
On TPM
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dylann-roof-white-supremacist-patches
Police officer fractures 12-year-old girl’s jaw, ribs during city pool arrests caught on video
Fairfield, Ohio — Krystal Dixon had just dropped off her kids and nieces and nephews at the pool for a day of summer fun when she got a call that the kids were being asked to leave because one of them wasn’t wearing a swimsuit. She promised to grab the forgotten swimwear and bring it to the pool, but when she arrived, she and a few of the teenage girls had to be rushed to the hospital following a clash with police officers who had arrived to escort Dixon and her family from the premises.
Dixon and her family provided vastly different accounts of what happened than the police did. The family accused cops of excessive force, pointing to the fact that Dixon, who is pregnant, had to be checked out by doctors after the incident and that cops pepper sprayed teenage girls. What’s more, Dixon’s 12-year-old niece, who officers grabbed by the neck and slammed against the car, suffered a fractured jaw and broken ribs.
Dixon said that she arrived to the pool and was informed by staff that the kids had broken pool rules when the swimsuit-less child swam in his clothes. They were asked to leave, and Dixon started to gather up her children. That’s when, according to Dixon, a park ranger began following her and took out his handcuffs when teens approached to see what was going on.
When Dixon could not provide ID because she did not have it on her, the officer grabbed her arm, and the kids asked him to let her go. From there, the situation escalated.
http://thegrio.com/2015/06/17/ohio-cops-black-family-pool-arrests/
Texas Governor Was Sent Pieces Of Tin Foil After His Texas Takeover Response
At least two clever Texans sent Gov. Greg Abbott (R) pieces of foil "for your hat" after he ordered the Texas State Guard to "monitor" the U.S. military's training exercise known as Jade Helm 15, Gawker reported on Tuesday.
The foil was a reference to conspiracy theorists who are sometimes characterized as wearing foil hats to prevent their thoughts from being read. The message was unearthed by Gawker reporter Sam Biddle as part of a public records request.
One of the foil packages reportedly contained the message: “For your hat! Thanks for making our state look like idiots!”
Additionally, a roll and a sheet of foil without any messages attached prompted an internal email within the governor’s office, according to Gawker.
“We will log in as opposing the State Guard monitoring the Jade Helm exercises,” Deputy Director of the Constituent Communication Division Dede Keith wrote of the foil. “I googled around to see if I could find someone calling on folks to sent it and came up empty thus far. If we get more, I’ll let you know."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/greg-abbott-tin-foil-jade-helm
What kind of weapon kills 9 people in a few seconds?
And does it belong in the hands of civilians?
Extremely chilling tweet re. church shooting
deray mckesson ?@deray 7m7 minutes ago
In hearing that the shooter participated in the bible study, waited, then got up and shot everyone. #CharlestonShooting
https://twitter.com/deray
State Senator Pinckney is dead.
Confirmed on MSNBC. This was a political assassination.
The pastor of Emanuel AME Church is a State Senator who was at Hillary fundraiser today.
Flame away, but this feels like a political hit.
http://inagist.com/all/611368571185205248/
With Eye on Fiscal Armageddon, Texas Set to 'Repatriate' Its Gold To New Texas Fort Knox
On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation that will create a state-run gold depository in the Lone Star State – one that will attempt to rival those operated by the U.S. government inside Fort Knox and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s vault in lower Manhattan. “The Texas Bullion Depository,” Abbott said in a statement, “will become the first state-level facility of its kind in the nation, increasing the security and stability of our gold reserves and keeping taxpayer funds from leaving Texas to pay for fees to store gold in facilities outside our state.” Soon, Abbott’s office said, the state “will repatriate $1 billion of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve in New York to Texas.” In other words, when it comes preparing for the currency collapse and financial armeggedon, Abbott's office really seems to think Texas is a whole 'nother country.
And the new depository will not just be a well-guarded warehouse for that bullion. The law Abbott signed calls for the creation of an electronic payments system that will allow gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and rhodium depositors to write checks against their accounts, making the depository into a bank – one that will create a metal-backed money supply intended to challenge the paper currency issued by the Federal Reserve - or "Yankee dollars" as one of the law's top supporters calls them. And in case the Fed or Obama wants to confiscate Texas's gold, nice try Fed and Obama! In keeping with this suspicion of the Fed and Washington, the new law also explicitly declares that no “governmental or quasi-governmental authority other than an authority of [Texas]” will be allowed to confiscate or freeze an account inside the depository. Gold that’s entrusted to Texas will stay in Texas.
The depository law is the brainchild of a second-term state representative in the Texas legislature named Giovanni Capriglione, a 42-year-old Republican from Southlake, just northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. A private equity manager with an MBA, Capriglione was elected in 2012 after beating an seven-term incumbent with the backing of Tea Party activists. He told the Star-Telegram that when he first announced his interest in establishing a depository in Texas in 2013, he “got so many emails and phone calls from people literally all over the world who said they want to store their gold … in a Texas depository. People have this image of Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they would want to go with their gold.” On his official Facebook page, Capriglione said he has “ just been overwhelmed with all of the contacts and write-ups and interviews” he’s gotten.
Fed critics herald Capriglione’s bill as a long-awaited and much-needed assault on the government’s printing press. Ryan McMaken at the libertarian Mises Institute (named after Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises) wrote that “while the Texas depository is a government-owned enterprise, it nevertheless is an improvement since it is a case of decentralization (and arguably nullification)” that will present “alternatives to the Federally-controlled monetary and banking systems.” In what Capriglione – the depository bill’s sponsor – called “an easy to read summary of the specifics” of the law, a Tea Party site described the depository as a “game changer.” The author of the piece, a metals dealer named Franklin Sanders, wrote that “since at least 1991 I have firmly believed that whenever an electronic payments system could be established using silver & gold, it could supplant fiat currencies worldwide within two years at most, less time given a crisis. Now Texas steps forward to make it stick. And if Texas has the nerve to carry though, it will make Texas a center of world finance to rival New York and London better than Switzerland, because it contains 27,695,284 Texans and all but two of ‘em are armed & serious.” (Sanders favors the term “Yankee dollars” to describe paper currency.)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/with-eye-on-fiscal-armageddon-texas-set-to-repatriate-its-gold-to-new-texas-fort-know
Berkeley apartment balconies had been red-tagged and deemed unsafe before accident.
According to reports, all the balconies in the complex were red-tagged and deemed unsafe before the accident. The Library Gardens apartments, located in downtown Berkeley, are surrounded by museums, restaurants, coffee shops and chain stores and is just blocks from the University of California, Berkeley.
http://wivb.com/2015/06/16/5-dead-8-injured-after-california-balcony-collapse/
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